{"id":2324369,"date":"2024-08-14T12:05:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T16:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liberal-group-wants-feds-to-punish-musk-for-talking-to-trump-blatantly-illegal\/"},"modified":"2024-08-14T12:14:02","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T16:14:02","slug":"liberal-group-wants-feds-to-punish-musk-for-talking-to-trump-blatantly-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liberal-group-wants-feds-to-punish-musk-for-talking-to-trump-blatantly-illegal\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberal Group Wants Feds to Punish Musk For Talking to Trump: &#8216;Blatantly Illegal&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fliberal-group-wants-feds-to-punish-musk-for-talking-to-trump-blatantly-illegal%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2324369&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Summary:<\/p>\n<p>Recent events \u200bsurrounding a conversation \u2064between Elon Musk\u2064 and GOP presidential \u2062candidate Donald Trump have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/irish-womens-lgbt-football-team-with-male-player-beats-finals-opponent-by-8-goals\/\" title=\"Irish Women\u2019s &quot;LGBT&quot; Football Team With Male Player Beats Finals Opponent By 8 Goals\">sparked significant controversy<\/a>. An official\u2063 from the European Union openly threatened Musk\u200c prior to \u200dtheir discussion, \u2064drawing outrage\u2062 in the U.S. for\u2064 what many perceived\u200b as a violation \u2063of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/states-push-to-rein-in-big-tech-as-federal-gears-grind-slow\/\" title=\"States Push to Rein in Big Tech as Federal Gears Grind Slow\">free speech rights<\/a>. \u2063Additionally, a left-wing Political Action\u200b Committee\u2064 (PAC) called\u2064 End Citizens United filed a complaint with the Federal \u200dElection Commission (FEC), claiming that \u200dMusk\u2019s hosting of Trump constituted an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-arrest-timeline-of-trumps-indictment-involving-hush-money-payments\/\" title=\"Donald Trump arrest: Timeline of Trump&#039;s indictment involving hush money payments\">illegal corporate contribution<\/a> \u2063to the campaign, violating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-president-trump-gives-pardons-to-73-individuals-and-commutes-another-70-sentences-steve-bannon-is-included\/\" title=\"BREAKING: President Trump Gives Pardons to 73 Individuals and Commutes Another 70 Sentences \u2013 Steve Bannon Is Included\">campaign finance<\/a>\u2064 laws. The complaint specifically argued that the resources Musk dedicated to the event were valuable \u2062contributions to Trump\u2019s campaign. End Citizens United&#8217;s president highlighted concerns about corporate influence in political campaigning, while Musk&#8217;s past offers to host discussions with other\u2063 political \u2062figures were overlooked in the complaint. The PAC&#8217;s actions have drawn\u200c criticism, particularly for appearing to target Musk due to his association with Trump while ignoring\u200d similar behaviors from big tech companies that favor the left. the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joy-behar-shocks-the-view-co-host-with-x-rated-trump-joke-live-on-air-27\/\" title=\"Joy Behar Shocks &#039;The View&#039; Co-Host with X-Rated Trump Joke Live on Air\">incident highlights ongoing tensions<\/a> regarding \u200bfree \u2064speech, campaign finance, and the role of social media in politics.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> <script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>When a European Union official openly threatened Elon Musk before his Monday discussion with GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, Americans were outraged &mdash; and rightly so. It was a blatant attack upon free speech by a foreign entity.<\/p>\n<p>Less noticed, however, was a left-wing PAC acting immediately after the discussion to get the Biden administration&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/kamala-harris-personally-files-fec-form-using-bidens-number-shady-scheme-displace-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Federal Election Commission<\/a> to punish Musk for daring to have the talk with the presidential candidate.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/endcitizensunited.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/20240813135304431.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">filing<\/a> with the FEC on Tuesday, End Citizens United &mdash; which takes its name from the Supreme Court decision which upheld the freedom of speech for independent groups spending on political campaigns &mdash; called the Monday discussion &ldquo;blatantly illegal&rdquo; because it constituted a contribution to Trump&rsquo;s campaign.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The complaint states that the resources X Corp. owner Elon Musk dedicated to hosting Donald Trump for a campaign event was an impermissible corporate in-kind contribution that violated campaign finance laws,&rdquo; the group said in a news release shortly after the complaint was filed.<\/p>\n<p>The filing said that the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 &ldquo;prohibit[s] corporations from making contributions to federal candidates, and federal candidates may not accept such contributions.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>  <script> \t\t\t\tif( ! getCookie( 'ff_subbed' ) ) if( typeof FFADS.replace_ict !='undefined' ) if( FFADS.replace_ict ) eval( FFADS.replace_ict ); \t\t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A &lsquo;contribution&rsquo; includes &lsquo;anything of value&rsquo; provided to a federal candidate in connection with their election,&rdquo; the complaint read.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Although there is an exemption for &lsquo;any news story, commentary, or editorial distributed through the facilities of any broadcasting station, newspaper, magazine, or other periodical publication,&rsquo; a contribution can result if an entity otherwise entitled to the press exemption performs functions that are not within its normal press function.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>End Citizens United argued that it couldn&rsquo;t, due to &ldquo;the considerable resources of X to host Trump&rsquo;s campaign event, including dedicating real-time staff to address technical difficulties specifically for the campaign event and the time of its owner to participate in the event,&rdquo; which they said were &ldquo;of significant value to the Trump Campaign.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, this post from Musk wasn&rsquo;t included in the complaint, as if it weren&rsquo;t relevant in the slightest:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Happy to host Kamala on an &#120143; Spaces too<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1823217769229566251?\">August 13, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Similarly problematic was End Citizens United president Tiffany Muller&rsquo;s statement along with the <a href=\"https:\/\/endcitizensunited.org\/latest-news\/press-releases\/end-citizens-united-files-fec-complaint-against-trump-campaign-and-x-over-illegal-corporate-contribution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Donald Trump-Elon Musk campaign rally hosted on X wasn&rsquo;t just an incoherent diatribe of lies marred by technical difficulties[,] it was a blatantly illegal corporate contribution to Donald Trump&rsquo;s campaign,&rdquo; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This brazen corporate contribution undermines campaign finance laws and would set a dangerous precedent for unfettered, direct corporate engagement in campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The FEC must investigate this corporate-funded campaign event and hold Trump, his campaign, and X Corp. accountable.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>OK, let&rsquo;s assume Mueller&rsquo;s grammatically challenged statement (learn how to use a comma, woman) was accurate and that this really&nbsp;<em>was<\/em> an &ldquo;incoherent diatribe of lies marred by technical difficulties.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Leave aside that she and others who want to see a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/supreme-court-sides-biden-admin-deal-crushing-blow-free-speech-alitos-scathing-dissent-must-read\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Supreme Court<\/a> that will dismantle Citizens United and other rulings antithetical to the leftist ethos dismantled, which would involve a Democrat president being elected. Let them talk every night, then, right?<\/p>\n<p>Ah, but it&rsquo;s the&nbsp;<em>precedent<\/em> of the thing &mdash; the fact he talked to a presidential candidate he tacitly supports, despite the fact that an offer to the other side has been made. Never mind, of course, that Musk previously hosted an X Spaces chat with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/live-desantis-expected-officially-announce-presidential-run-interview-elon-musk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis<\/a>, who, as you may recall, wasn&rsquo;t exactly too friendly with Trump during the election season.<\/p>\n<p>Never mind, too, that Musk is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/elon-musk-makes-offer-kamala-harris-trump-interview-blows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in the business of drawing eyes and ears to X<\/a>, and that a Harris event &mdash; if she decided that she was actually going to do an interview, which she&rsquo;s so far avoided since becoming the presumptive nominee like dental surgery performed by an angry skunk &mdash; would attract similar attention.<\/p>\n<p>And never mind, too, that Big Tech companies which openly favor one party over the other are just fine by End Citizens United in general.<\/p>\n<p>Take Google, which has just admitted that its algorithm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/google-admits-changing-search-results-trump-assassination-searches-much\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suppressed information about the Trump assassination attempt<\/a> and served news about Kamala Harris to those searching for Donald Trump. End Citizens United last <a href=\"https:\/\/endcitizensunited.org\/latest-news\/press-releases\/googles-response-to-insurrection-a-slap-on-the-wrist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">complained<\/a> about them in earnest, according to a search of their website, after the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol incursion, and that was for donating to <em>too many&nbsp;<\/em>Republicans via their PAC. Let that one sink in.<\/p>\n<p>Or take Facebook, whose employees and executives have made clear where they stand through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/2fa73048-db90-11e8-9f04-38d397e6661c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">their<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/09\/10\/us\/politics\/facebook-trump-dustin-moskovitz.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contributions<\/a> &mdash; and have policed the platform accordingly. The last time ECU <a href=\"https:\/\/endcitizensunited.org\/latest-news\/press-releases\/ecu-civic-groups-experts-call-facebook-google-support-honest-ads-act\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">complained<\/a> about&nbsp;<em>them<\/em> in earnest was all the way back in 2017, and that was over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/cnn-draws-major-backlash-giving-promotion-notorious-russian-collusion-hoaxer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">now-debunked Russiagate hoax<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But one discussion with Donald Trump and suddenly, the PAC wants Biden&rsquo;s FEC all over Musk.<\/p>\n<p>If you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/european-union-attempts-scare-elon-musk-censoring-trump-ahead-blockbuster-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thought the E.U. was bad<\/a>, just remember: The Western left, in all its guises, is profoundly anti-free speech. We have the First Amendment, which makes it harder for them. 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This was a clear infringement on free speech by an external entity. However, what went largely unnoticed was the swift action taken by a left-leaning PAC following the discussion, urging the Biden administration&#8217;s Federal Election Commission (FEC) to penalize Musk for having the conversation with Trump. In a filing submitted to the FEC on Tuesday, End Citizens United\u2014named after the Supreme Court ruling that upheld free speech rights for independent groups in political spending\u2014described the Monday meeting as &#8220;blatantly illegal,&#8221; claiming it amounted to an unlawful contribution to Trump&#8217;s campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The complaint asserted that Musk&#8217;s resources used for hosting Trump constituted an improper corporate in-kind contribution that violated campaign finance laws. According to their statement, &#8220;the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 prohibits corporations from making contributions to federal candidates, and federal candidates may not accept such contributions.&#8221; The complaint further explained that any provision of value given to a federal candidate related to their election qualifies as a &#8220;contribution.&#8221; While there is an exemption for news stories or editorials distributed through media outlets, they argued that if an entity entitled to this press exemption engages in activities outside its normal journalistic functions, it could still be considered a contribution.<\/p>\n<p>End Citizens United contended that due to &#8220;the considerable resources of X Corp. dedicated&#8221; towards hosting Trump&#8217;s event\u2014including real-time staff assistance for technical issues and Musk&#8217;s personal involvement\u2014the support provided was significantly valuable for Trump&#8217;s campaign. Notably absent from their complaint was Musk\u2019s own tweet expressing willingness to host Vice President Kamala Harris on X Spaces.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally troubling were comments made by End Citizens United president Tiffany Muller alongside their announcement: she characterized the Trump-Musk rally as not only chaotic but also as an illegal corporate donation undermining campaign finance laws and setting a dangerous precedent for unrestricted corporate involvement in campaigns. She called upon the FEC to investigate this event funded by corporate interests and hold all parties accountable.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming Muller&#8217;s critique about technical difficulties during the event holds true\u2014and disregarding her grammatical errors\u2014it raises questions about whether similar discussions should be allowed freely without fear of repercussions from those who oppose them politically. It\u2019s worth noting that Musk had previously hosted Florida Governor Ron DeSantis\u2014a figure who had been critical of Trump during election season\u2014on X Spaces without facing similar scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, while Big Tech companies openly favor one political party over another without backlash from End Citizens United\u2014such as Google admitting its algorithm suppressed information regarding attempts against Trump while promoting news about Harris\u2014their sudden concern over one conversation with Trump highlights inconsistencies in their advocacy efforts regarding free speech and political engagement.<\/p>\n<p>In summary, while some entities may express outrage over perceived violations of free speech when it suits them politically\u2014as seen with this recent attempt at censorship\u2014it underscores how deeply entrenched anti-free speech sentiments can be within certain factions of Western politics today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2324370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/trumusk.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[38117,38118,38116,4250,3634],"class_list":["post-2324369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-federal-punishment","tag-legal-controversy","tag-liberal-group","tag-musk","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/trumusk.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2324369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2324370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2324369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2324369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2324369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}